Career Summary

MLB Statistics

Historical (past-seasons) WARP is now based on DRA..
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YEAR

Team

Lg

G

GS

IP

W

L

SV

H

BB

SO

HR

oppTAv

PPF

H/9

BB/9

HR/9

K/9

GB%

BABIP

TAv

WHIP

FIP

ERA

cFIP

DRA

DRA-

WARP

1999

TEX

MLB

2

0

2.7

0

0

0

12

0

3

3

.257

108

40.5

0.0

10.1

10.1

35%

.643

.557

4.50

15.58

33.75

108

7.05

131.1

-0.0

2000

TEX

MLB

30

13

98.7

7

6

0

109

58

66

14

.266

98

9.9

5.3

1.3

6.0

53%

.307

.269

1.69

5.59

5.38

110

5.75

112.3

0.5

2001

TEX

MLB

30

30

186.0

11

10

0

220

69

115

14

.263

103

10.6

3.3

0.7

5.6

51%

.329

.269

1.55

4.00

4.45

101

4.39

100.4

2.9

2002

TEX

MLB

10

10

59.7

3

5

0

67

22

28

7

.265

102

10.1

3.3

1.1

4.2

46%

.297

.279

1.49

4.90

4.98

116

5.54

112.3

0.0

2003

MIL

0

8

8

52.3

3

2

0

49

21

35

8

.253

103

8.4

3.6

1.4

6.0

45%

.256

.259

1.34

4.83

2.58

0

0.00

112.9

0.0

2003

TEX

0

1

1

3.0

0

0

0

4

4

2

2

.285

118

12.0

12.0

6.0

6.0

45%

.222

.412

2.67

14.43

12.00

0

0.00

182.3

0.0

2003

TOR

0

12

11

54.0

4

6

0

70

26

25

6

.261

104

11.7

4.3

1.0

4.2

43%

.333

.288

1.78

5.11

5.00

0

0.00

115.5

0.0

2004

MIL

MLB

34

34

207.3

12

12

0

192

79

166

14

.259

91

8.3

3.4

0.6

7.2

49%

.290

.246

1.31

3.48

3.39

88

3.42

76.9

5.4

2005

MIL

MLB

35

35

222.7

11

11

0

196

93

208

26

.256

99

7.9

3.8

1.1

8.4

47%

.276

.251

1.30

3.95

3.84

86

3.67

88.3

4.6

2006

MIL

MLB

34

34

203.3

11

11

0

206

102

159

19

.258

94

9.1

4.5

0.8

7.0

47%

.302

.266

1.51

4.34

4.91

103

5.12

110.0

1.6

2007

ARI

MLB

33

33

192.7

13

12

0

211

95

144

21

.255

104

9.9

4.4

1.0

6.7

49%

.318

.264

1.59

4.66

4.25

101

4.88

104.4

1.8

2008

ARI

MLB

26

26

146.0

6

8

0

160

64

112

13

.259

101

9.9

3.9

0.8

6.9

49%

.322

.269

1.53

4.13

4.32

102

4.12

98.2

2.3

2009

ARI

MLB

34

34

203.3

9

14

0

203

103

146

25

.256

99

9.0

4.6

1.1

6.5

45%

.291

.272

1.50

4.80

4.12

117

5.32

0.0

0.6

2010

MIL

MLB

8

8

38.3

1

4

0

55

21

34

6

.261

92

12.9

4.9

1.4

8.0

49%

.386

.343

1.98

5.25

7.51

109

5.19

112.3

0.0

2011

CHN

MLB

9

9

45.7

1

7

0

59

26

36

2

.258

103

11.6

5.1

0.4

7.1

46%

.361

.302

1.86

3.83

6.50

108

4.25

104.0

0.4

2003

TOT

MLB

21

20

109.3

7

8

0

123

51

62

16

.258

104

10.1

4.2

1.3

5.1

44%

.296

.279

1.59

5.23

4.03

113

5.91

116.1

-0.2

Career

MLB

306

286

1715.7

92

108

0

1813

783

1279

180

.259

99

9.5

4.1

0.9

6.7

48%

.307

.268

1.51

4.39

4.44

102

4.64

101.0

19.9

Statistics for All Levels

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1 year/$0.4275M (2003). Re-signed by Texas 2/03. Sent outright to Triple-A 3/03. Contract purchased 4/03. Claimed by Toronto off waivers after being DFA by Texas 4/03. DFA by Toronto 7/03.

1 year/$0.31M (2002). Re-signed by Texas 2/02.

Drafted by Texas 1996 (10-293) (City College of San Francisco).

Previous Year Preseason Upside By Year

Yr Proj

2015

2016

2017

2018

2019

2020

PEAK 5

2015

8.1

8.8

0

2.3

2.3

21.5

BP Annual Player Comments

Year

Comment

2012

Rasputin-grade survivor Doug Davis couldn’t stop the bleeding during nine starts with the Cubs, but fooled the kids in Triple-A after the Sox picked him up; still ticking despite a decade of substandard stuff and health, he’ll likely bring his slow-and-slower routine to someone’s spring training complex, unless a coterie of tsarist aristocrats take him for a long walk along the Neva first.

2011

Davis is nothing if not a survivor, having scratched out an 11-season career despite thyroid cancer, deficient stuff, and enough men on base to cast a remake of Gone with the Wind. Last year, Davis was able to pitch around a case of pericarditis, but couldn’t wiggle past the nearly two baserunners per inning he allowed or the elbow woes that ended his season after only eight disastrous starts. Back on the street at age 35 with a new scar on his elbow, it’s unlikely that Davis will still be able to fool major-league hitters with his mid-80s “fastball,” cutter, and curve. Then again, it was unlikely for him to have ever done so.

2010

Davis is a concrete example of how a deceptive delivery and quality secondary pitches can go a long way towards making up for a below-average fastball for a southpaw. He walks too many hitters relative to his strikeout total, but has proven himself durable—even recovering from cancer to surpass the 200-inning plateau once again—and effective enough to consistently manage an ERA in the low fours. A league-average innings muncher in every sense of the term, Davis is still a solid third or fourth starter and, at 33 years old, could continue frustrating hitters for years to come.

2009

We all know what Doug Davis is—he's the same thing he's been for years, a guy who depends on a curve, and when it's on he can give you six or seven solid innings and keep you in the ballgame but never dominate. None of that matters a bit. What matters is that the dude did it having come back from cancer, and that's way cool. Rock on, Doug Davis. Rock on.

2008

Credit Josh Byrnes for taking a chance on Davis, who moved into a more difficult home park last year and nevertheless delivered a Doug Davis sort of season. As expected, Phoenix wasn't kind to him; though he split his starts evenly between home and the road, two-thirds of the homers he allowed came at Chase Field. What has separated Davis from 90 percent of the guys we say might be fourth starters is that he's made the Jamie Moyer Leap of Understanding: he gets what his limitations are and works within them, giving his team quality starts more than half the time while relying on his low-velocity curveball-driven mix. He also has one of the best pickoff moves around. He's not quite what you want at the front of your rotation, but he provides the sort of stability that lets the Diamondbacks take their chances with Randy Johnson.

2007

Davis has been durable, and manager Ned Yost and pitching coach Mike Maddux have handled him well, keeping his pitches per start at an acceptable level. Ironically, Davis`s durability, coupled with his challenge-everybody approach, has resulted in a lot of pitches thrown. From 2004 through 2006, Davis ranked twentieth, third, and tenth in the majors in total pitches thrown, respectively. The confluence of these factors--the regression in his rate stats, his mileage, and, most of all, his arbitration eligibility--encouraged the Brewers to pack him off to Arizona in November. He`s a lefty without dominating stuff coming to a park that`s even more generous to right-handed power than Miller Park. His unintentional walks per nine innings have gone from 3.3 to 3.6 to 4.5 over the last three years, and, during that same time, he gave up 3.6 runs per nine innings in Milwaukee against 5.1 on the road. So, he`s leaving the park that helped him, his control`s slipping, and he`s entering one of the game`s best hitter`s parks. Durability is an important quality, to be sure, but if he posts another ERA a half-run higher than league-average in this year, the Snakes should be satisfied.

2005

Measuring by VORP, Davis was the 19th best pitcher in baseball last year. In that sense, he was essentially the equal of Tim Hudson, Pedro Martinez, Mark Buehrle, or Roy Oswalt. Since being signed to a minor league contract in July 2003, Davis has thrown 259 innings for the Brewers with a 2.81 ERA. Not bad for a guy with average stuff who had plowed his way through two organizations who both needed pitching. Regardless of whether Davis can continue to pitch well, he's the best free talent acquisition any team has made in the past two years.

2004

A guy skips around this much, you might wonder what's going on. In this case, Davis appears to be unwilling to listen to his pitching coaches. When it was Oscar Acosta, you might have understood, but it moved beyond that last year. Given that he's less than dominant, you might find this monomaniacal conviction to use the Force surprising, but eventually he was going to get it his way, in that he could probably find some appropriately desperate team willing to take him, no questions asked. Certainly, six quick quality starts at season's end go a long way on this team. The real question is whether they'll tolerate him when he doesn't pitch well, because he is not going to keep doing that.

2003

The mystifying May demotion of Davis to Oklahoma was more about sending a message than anything strictly baseball-related. Then-pitching coach Oscar Acosta cited Davis’s lack of “a heartbeat.” Maybe so, but this club could really use a corpse if it can put up a sub-5.00 ERA—it’s the Rangers, after all. He’s out of options, so the Rangers have less incentive to jerk him around again this year (not that it guarantees they won’t). They can hope that the impressive control he demonstrated in Triple-A and the Dominican Winter League is a sign of things to come, and that the shoulder soreness that shortened his season isn’t.

2002

Last year’s numbers look tidy, but they don’t tell the story of Davis’s season. His ERA stood at 7.00 in mid-May, when he was demoted to Triple-A briefly. Upon returning, he began throwing a cut fastball underneath hitters’ hands to gain control of the inside half of the plate, and he posted an ERA of 3.84 the rest of the way. Davis’s soft-tossing ways won’t allow him to be ace material, but he’s the only member of the 2001 rotation who will be part of the next good Rangers team.

2001

Doug Davis managed to get 13 starts for the Rangers thanks to injuries and ineffectiveness among his staff mates. He doesn't throw real hard and lives and dies by his ability to keep hitters off stride and to move the ball around. There are a lot of pitchers who are very successful doing this. There are a lot more who aren't.

2000

The most promising Rangers pitching prospect. I wish that Oates had found a way to get him out of his major-league debut before he gave up 10 runs. Then again, Davis has had too much success in the minors to let one drubbing shatter his confidence. The Rangers would love to have left-handed pitchers in their rotation, so Davis has a good chance of starting for them sometime during 2000.

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PITCHf/x Pitcher Profile

Although he has not thrown an MLB pitch in 2016, Doug Davis threw 9,233 pitches that were tracked by the PITCHf/x system between 2007 and 2011, including pitches thrown in the MLB Regular Season, the MLB Postseason and Spring Training. In 2011, he relied primarily on his Cutter (82mph) and Fourseam Fastball (85mph), also mixing in a Curve (70mph) and Change (79mph). He also rarely threw a Sinker (84mph).